When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You come home when the war is won.
I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.
You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.
I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
When there's a war, people get married.
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
Never go to war unless your willing to win.